A day after a bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court claimed 13 lives and injured over 75 people, investigators on Thursday failed to get definite leads. But a new email, reportedly by the Indian Mujahideen (IM), claimed that it was behind the incident — and not the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami — and dared the security agencies to prevent another explosion planned by it at a shopping complex next week.

Reward announced

Police have detained five persons in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir and one in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the blast. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a reward of Rs. 5 lakh to anyone providing clues about the explosion.

Secretary (Internal Security) in the Home Ministry U.K. Bansal said teams of Anti-Terror Squads from the neighbouring States were coming here for consultations with the NIA and the Delhi Police to help in the probe. Forensic science experts from Gandhinagar and Hyderabad scanned the blast site on Thursday and the NIA was vigorously pursuing various leads and looking at all possible connections.

On the new email, Mr. Bansal said the investigators were examining it to determine its authenticity. The first email, sent by Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami, was traced to the Global Cyber Café in Kishtwar district. Its owner and four others were being questioned by police. The person detained in Balrampur in U.P., resembled one of the sketches released by the Delhi Police and his identity and antecedents were being verified, well placed sources said.Intelligence experts said the latest claim – by IM – could be a ploy to perplex the investigators and turn out to be a prank. The IM claimed that the HuJI had no role in the blast.

Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram presided over a meeting of the chiefs of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Intelligence Bureau and the NIA and reviewed the security scenario.

The Home Ministry has entrusted the probe into the May 25 blast in the Delhi High Court to the NIA.

Bomb blasts in the recent past in Delhi, which occurred outside the Jama Masjid and in Mehrauli, remain unsolved till date.

Even an average high school boy can understand, that this kind of e-mails are ment to divert the attention of police and intelligence(sic) Agencies from the real culprits.Why the NIA have not run behind the second and third e-mails.It is utter foolishness to arrest or detain the Cyber cafe people and publish their names and names of families and relatives etc.Only to show that they are doing a great work.Use some intelligence, probe systematically, analyse whose purpose it is solving, see who is trying to take political milage and instigate people aginst ruling govt.taking advantage of this situation.Probe the confirmed and organised terrorist outfits who were caught red-handed like Abhinav Bharti, enqire the roots of those trained by the arrested Lt.Col Srikant Purohit's terror students, also Huji, bhuji etc etc.Do not make "bakwas" before having any concreat evidance.Please think for the country and do something for the bulk salaries and privilages you enjoy.

from:
Dravid

Posted on: Sep 9, 2011 at 16:46 IST

Heights of stupidity is being exhibited after and before Delhi blasts by our enforcement agencies. The terrorists gave their intention and location through a trial run - still nothing could be done to prevent blast. Now NIA is running behind e-mails send with specific purpose of deviating their limited mental and physical resources. Police are arresting Internet cafe owner and his relatives as if they send the mail and waited there to be arrested.

from:
Solgy Kottaram

Posted on: Sep 9, 2011 at 13:07 IST

The inhuman terror strike in the Delhi High court in the morning hours of September 7, is a reflection of the failure of intelligence and security mechanisms in the country. It is sad that the terrorists are carrying out their activities at their own sweet will and the country has become a soft target for terror attacks. There is a complete lack of political will to contain terror. Opposition on other hand is wasting no time to get into the news by waging a war against the government instead of engaging in a constructive fight against terror. No lessons are learnt from the past and there doesn’t seem to be any accountability in the system to make someone responsible for the lapses and while politicians enjoy the high security cover the men on the streets are the ones who are badly affected and remember they are carrying inherent risk at all times. The state of affairs is truly painful.

from:
Srinivasan Umashankar

Posted on: Sep 9, 2011 at 09:30 IST

In other words, the government has no intelligence on the ground. The biggest lead is an e mail from a cyber cafe? What was the sender's address? Terrorist@Indianmujahideen.com? It was probably a little more creative than our police forces. When was the last time any Indian police team actually did some detective work to solve a case?

from:
B S Kumar

Posted on: Sep 9, 2011 at 08:54 IST

The Delhi Highcourt was attacked a few months ago and yet no security cameras or other security measures were adopted to prevent another attack. There seems to be no political will to secure the public from such attacks. In a few days, everything will be forgotten and no action will be taken to prevent such attacks. The last attack on Mumbai earlier this year is yet to be resolved and is already forgotten. Such attacks will unfortunately continue till the politicians are held accountable.

from:
krishna

Posted on: Sep 9, 2011 at 01:32 IST

Dont the authorities concerned get tired of accusing one community only being responsible for all terror attacks inspite of Inspector Karkare exposing the RSS based Hindu terror outfits responsible for a number of bomb blasts?But the Government and the media find it convenient to hide this truth and keep the beleagured and terorised muslim community on tenterhooks.Each time a bomb blast takes place,muslim houses are raided for catching suspects based on some far fetched sketches drawn showing men with beards.When the hindu militant hideouts were raided in the wake of malegaon, hyderabad and jama masjid bombay where muslims were targetted, they found false beards, white caps and dresses worn by muslims.The right wing hindu terror groups are taking advantage og the spineless UPA government which has let the hindu militants go scot free inspite of being chargesheeted as confirmed terrorists. A different angle has to be adopted in order to give muslims the freedom to live without fear.